"With all-its-in-that-day almost unexampled simplicity and naturalness, his [Cowper's] style is the very reverse of a slovenly or irregular one."- Craik.

"Squeezed out his eyes at such a rate as one could see nothing but the white."- Swift.

- Id.

"It was among the great misfortunes of Jack to bear a huge personal resemblance with his brother Peter." "In comparison of the former." Addison.

Elizabeth stood excommunicated of the Pope.

With qualifications different to his.

Nor doth vice only thin a nation, but also debaseth it by a puny, degenerate race.

In that mighty struggle between the first intellects of this or any other country.

"I confess myself to have one of those dull souls that doth not perceive itself always to contemplate ideas." Locke.

What an inferior creature is not the mussel clinging to the rock on the sea-shore, when compared to the May-fly rising on golden wings through the balmy air of spring!

One is just as abhorrent in the eyes of all intelligent and Christian men as the other.

"The baron looked eagerly round for some one at whom he might inquire the cause of this alarming novelty.” — W. Scott.

"Of whose judgment he had nearly an opinion as high as of his valor.". - Id.

The ostrich supposes by burying her eyes in the sand to avoid the huntsman's arrow.

Goldsmith.

"I had some opinion of my son's prudence." "Mr. Burchell dissuaded her with great ardor." - Id. "Let us not increase the hardships of life by dissension among each other.” — Id.

Most all the members had now assembled.

It would not be safe to do it in almost any case.

In many of his observations we cordially agree.

The former is the true hypothesis of this subject.

They adopted such an enormous multitude as entirely to innovate the condition of the country.

Her mind was almost distraught by the sudden reverse in her fortunes.

I do not remember one regrettable passage in the letter. It is well worth all the labor it costs to resolutely be resigned.

The Thirty Years' War had the effect of uniting the most different people.

He eats, sleeps, and shares all the privations to which his men may be subjected.

The commander of a division or separate brigade may appoint general courts-martial, and confirm, execute, pardon, and mitigate their sentences.

One, though he be excellent and the chief, is not to be imitated alone.

The deserts are entirely barren, except where they are found to produce serpents, and in such quantities that some extensive plains are almost entirely covered with them.

He was equally afraid to offend the Emperor, of whose power he had recently had so painful an experience, or the English king, whose support he desired to secure in case of future dangers.

That ruling of the spirit which is needful to rightly meet disappointment, brings out the best qualities that can be found in man.

It is much talked of by leading men of the necessity of changing the mode of proceeding.

An assault was made upon his conjugal feelings by the sudden at the moment, though from lingering illness often previously expected, death of Mr. Burney's second wife.

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Removing the term from Westminster, sitting the Parliament, was illegal."— Macaulay.

"We need not, nor do not, confine the purposes of God.' -Bentley.

"I shall endeavor to live hereafter suitable to a man in my station."

Addison.

"He behaved himself conformable to that blessed example."- Sprat.

"I can never think so very mean of him.”. -Bentley.

"The chiefest of which was known by the name of Archon among the Grecians." Dryden.

"The author is informed, that the bookseller has prevailed on several gentlemen to write some explanatory notes, for the goodness of which he is not to answer, having never seen any of them, nor intends it, till they appear in print.” - Swift.

"Nor is it then a welcome guest, affording only an uneasy sensation, and brings always with it a mixture of concern and compassion."- Fielding.

"Base, ungrateful boy! miserable as I am, yet I cannot cease to love thee. My love even now speaks in my resentment. I am still your father, nor can your usage form my heart anew." - Goldsmith.

"But the temper, as well as knowledge, of a modern historian, require a more sober and temperate language.”— Gibbon.

"Neither death nor torture were sufficient to subdue the minds of Cargill and his intrepid followers.”- Fox. Each of these words imply some pursuit or object relinquished.

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""T is observable that every one of the letters bear date after his banishment." - Bentley.

"Magnus, with four thousand of his supposed accomplices, were put to death." Gibbon.

"These feasts were celebrated to the honor of Osiris, whom the Greeks called Dionysius, and is the same with Bacchus."-Swift.

Whether one person or more was concerned in the business was not ascertained.

Those sort of favors do real injury under the appearance of kindness.

Every person, whatever be their station, is bound by the duties of morality and religion.

He dare not do it at present, and he need not.

Whether he will or no, I care not.

We do those things frequently that we repent of afterward.

Many persons will not believe but what they are free from prejudices.

"I am equally an enemy to a female dunce or a female pedant." Goldsmith.

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King Charles, and more than him, the duke and the Popish faction, were at liberty to form new schemes.” lingbroke.

"The drift of all his sermons was, to prepare the Jews for the reception of a prophet, mightier than him, and whose shoes he was not worthy to bear."- Atterbury.

"He whom ye pretend reigns in heaven, is so far from protecting the miserable sons of men, that he perpetually delights to blast the sweetest flowers in the garden of Hope." Hawkesworth.

"The only actions to which we have always seen, and still see all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another." - Burke.

"To which, as Bishop Burnet tells us, the Prince of Orange was willing to comply." — Bolingbroke.

"The discovery he made and communicated with his friends."

Swift.

"The people being only convoked upon such occasions, as, by this institution of Romulus, fell into their cognizance." ld.

"The wisest princes need not think it any diminution to their greatness or derogation to their sufficiency to rely upon counsel." - Bacon's Essays.

"The esteem which Philip had conceived of the embassador.". Hume.

"The Christians were driven out of all their Asiatic pos

sessions, in acquiring of which incredible numbers of men had perished."- Robertson.

"I do likewise dissent with the Examiner.' Addison. "Dr. Johnson, with whom I am sorry to differ in opinion, has treated it as a work of merit.”. Scott.

"The memory of Lord Peter's injuries produced a degree of hatred and spite, which had a much greater share of inciting him, than regards after his father's commands." Swift.

You stand to him in the relation of a son; of consequence you should obey him.

It is no more but his due.

The ship lays in the harbor.

"He will become enamored for virtue and patriotism, and acquire a detestation of vice, cruelty, and corruption." · Goldsmith.

"Having been for a fortnight together, they are then mighty good company to be sure."- Id.